ARMAVIR. (I) A province in North Caucasian area of the Russian S.F.S.R. Area 21,135 sq.km. Population (1926) 926,851; urban 105,396, rural It is a fertile black earth plain, but includes a part of the forested mountain slopes in the south. Wheat is the main crop, and rye, oats, barley, millet, maize, tobacco, flax, hemp and potatoes are grown. Vines and garden fruits are increasingly cultivated. (2) A town, the centre of the area 45° N. and 41° 8' E., on the Black sea-Caspian rail way with a branch to Tuapse on the Black sea. Pop. (1926) 74,3 great increase since its foundation in 1848. It is a trading centre and has a grain elevator.